Things Mom Liked (And Disliked)

1. She liked the movie adaptions of the Stieg Larsson trilogy, though she never got around to reading the books. That was atypical for her– but she loved stories of sleuthing and also stories with themes of justice.

2. She was an obsessive fan of Sherlock Holmes in the original stories– and the Basil Rathbone depictions on screen. (She was disappointed with Cumberpatch.)

3. Makeup. So much makeup. Not so much on her face, but a large bathroom in the house largely taken up by it, which I am slowly throwing away. As an artist she was an illustrator and a painter, and she used that obsessive perfectionism on the canvas of her face as well.

4. Big sunglasses, huge, 70s style. The kind that make the wearer look like they have insect eyes. I can’t look at them in movies without thinking of her– they were one of her signature items.